Antonio Barcelona Sánchez
ORCID-iD Universität Córdoba, Lehrstuhl für Englische und Deutsche Philologie, Fakultät für Philosophie und Literatur, 3 Plaza del Cardenal Salazar, Córdoba, E-14071
Spanien

Antonio Barcelona Sánchez is Professor of English Semantics and Grammar at University of Córdoba, Spain. His main areas of interest are conceptual metaphor and metonymy and their application to research on grammatical constructions, discourse comprehension, literature, religion and art.

He has lectured extensively as an invited speaker on metaphor, metonymy and Cognitive Linguistics at conferences and research institutions across the world, in places such as Madrid (2000 and 2008), Rosbruck Centre, Kerkrade, Holland (2002), Łódź, Poland (2005), Braga, Portugal (2003), Soria (Dukes of Soria Foundation and the Spanish Royal Academy of Language), Stockholm (2008), Dubrovnik (Croatia), Granada (2004), Las Palmas (2004), Pavia, Italy (2003), Leipzig (2003), Barcelona (2011), Düsseldorf (2015), Zagreb, Croatia (2016), and Lublin, Poland (2019).

He has authored over a hundred articles and authored or edited several books published by leading international publishers, among them Metaphor and Metonymy at the Crossroads. A Cognitive perspective (2000), Metonymy and Metaphor in Grammar (2009), Conceptual metonymy: Methodological, theoretical, and descriptive issues (2018). He has been the Head researcher or the member of the research team in at least fourteen government-funded research projects on cognitive linguistics and related areas.

He was the founder and first president of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association (AELCO) and a board member of ICLA, the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (1997-2001), Associate Editor of Cognitive Linguistics (2009 and 2011), and member of the Scientific Committee of several other international linguistics journals (like the Review of Cognitive Linguistics) and of several international linguistics book series. He has been a consultant for the European Science Foundation, the Spanish National Evaluation and Prospective Agency (ANEP) and the Spanish National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA).

Major 5 publications:

2023/2024: Metonymy and Discourse Comprehension. Five Case Studies

2019: Metonymy. In E. Dąbrowska & D. Divjak (Eds.), Cognitive Linguistics – Foundations of Language (pp. 353-385). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110626476  

2018: The complex task of studying metonymy. In A. Barcelona, O. Blanco Carrión & R. Pannain (Eds.), Conceptual Metonymy: Methodological, Theoretical, and Descriptive Issues: 60 (pp. 1-23). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.60.int

2017: Salience factors determining natural metonymic clippings illustrated through the medical lexicon. Ibérica 34, 17-44. Part of ISSN: 11397241

2016: Salience in metonymy-motivated constructional abbreviated form with particular attention to English clippings. Cognitive Semantics, 2(1), 30-58. https://doi.org/10.1163/23526416-00201003

2011 (with R Benczes & F. J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez): Defining Metonymy in Cognitive Linguistics. Towards a Consensus View. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Human Cognitive Processing series 28. ISBN: 9789027223821